Margaux Corda (b. Lausanne, Switzerland) is a photographer and art director working between Paris and Lausanne. She graduated from ECAL (École cantonale d’art de Lausanne) with a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication, specializing in photography.
Her work, both personal and commissioned, is guided by a single visual and conceptual thread. Margaux’s practice explores themes of identity, beauty, and heritage, and how these notions are shaped and perceived within Western society. As a queer artist, she examines contemporary gender symbols and representations, questioning the structures that define and sometimes constrain them.
Her images also investigate the historical, emotional, and familial legacies we inherit. Through her projects, Margaux seeks to deconstruct these layers of memory and expectation in order to better understand them, and ultimately reclaim them on her own terms. For her, these themes are deeply interconnected; each project becomes a space where they meet, overlap, and evolve through the same cohesive photographic language.
exhibitions & other
2025
- Disruptive by Design - NIKE x Gaze Magazine, Paris 19.11
- Finaliste Prix Fondation ABPi – 3e édition, Lausanne 11-14.10
- DE-CONSTRUCTED, PEP (photographic exploration project)/ B-Part Exhibition / Loopraum Galerie, Berlin, 16.08-13.09
- Near. Postcard launch - Arles, 10.07
- DISOBEDIENT IMAGES, Profifoto - Galerie de la grande vitrine, Arles Off, 7-13.07
- Finaliste Prix Picto de la Photographie de Mode 2025, Palais Galliera, Paris, 12.06
- Solo show avec Arc En Scène, Lausanne, 31.05
- Der Greif x Various Others – Bilder auf Reisen / Pictures on a Journey, part of Various Others Festival 2025
2024
- More Than Labels - Pullman Happenings, Personal exhibition, Paris 22.11
- ART-ICON "Corporeality", Bastille Design Center, Paris 8-10.11 - https://www.art-icon.org/paris-2024
- "Quand les images prennent soin", Centre de la photographie Genève, 26.08 - 15.09
- Fisheye Magazine - Les Coups de coeur #499 - https://cutt.ly/FehM6XZI
- Pool Collective x near. , Arles, 04.07
- Nuit des images x near. , Photo Elysée, 22.06
- Bowie Article "Margaux Corda's Archives Of Swiss Ballroom Scene" - https://cutt.ly/ierOYBGV
- Jury for Queer Festival Heidelberg 2024 - QUEER HEROES IN FOCUS
2023
- Interview for Radio Television Suisse, Ramdam emission - https://cutt.ly/GwA4sKNc
- Photo Elysée, Nuit des Musées, Atelier Broderie sur images, 30.09
- Pully Culture, Performance shooting, Musée d'Art de Pully, 03.06
- Near. x Musée d’art de Pully, collective exhibition, 10.03 - 18.06
- Jury for Queer Festival Heidelberg 2023 - BODILY AUTONOMIES
- Le Sublime, Solo exhibition, Lausanne 4-5.03
- La St-Valentin Du Q, collective exhibition in Le Grain, Geneva,10-12.02
2022
- Le T Magazine portfolio publication, December
- PhMuseumDays 2022 "Today is Yesterday's Tomorrow" Collective Exhibition in Piazza Minghetti, 23.09 - 02.10
- Dear Dave, Issue 30 - August 2022 - https://cutt.ly/XNoZo3z
- Finalist of the Picto Prize for Fashion Photography 2022 - https://cutt.ly/FFi2j1E
- Jury for Queer Festival Heidelberg 2022 - We Are Everywhere
- Photographic Exploration Project New Talent 2021 - Collective exhibition Berlin, January 30 to March 27, at Kommunale Galerie Berlin. - https://www.pep.photography/new-talents-2021
2021
- PAP Magazine publication, December, - https://cutt.ly/2UWAFVe
- FRESH EYES collective exhibition, Rotterdam Photobook Market, October 14 to 17.
- FRESH EYES TALENT 2021 - https://cutt.ly/eQC4zBN
- Photo Schweiz 2021, 1st - 11 July 2021 - https://cutt.ly/UQC7FZP
- PhotoTV photoPORTFOLIO with Margaux Corda - https://cutt.ly/uQC4Bye
- Konbini Arts Interview, April 2021. - https://cutt.ly/ebftRMR
- Sacrebleu! Magazine, article about «Blade For Babes», April 2021. - https://cutt.ly/pvaMWQG
- Fisheye Magazine, article about «Blade For Babes», Mars 2021. - https://cutt.ly/Kzlvj7H
- Jury for Queer Festival Heidelberg 2021 - QUEER IS NOT ANTI
- Edge Of Humanity Magazine, article about «Fantasma Inheritance», Mars 2021. - https://cutt.ly/mxRtRtN
2020
- Cherrydeck blog, Article about «Blade For Babes», September 2020. - https://cutt.ly/9fNoli7
- PHmuseum, featured project, August 2020. - https://cutt.ly/5vaMGHo
- Interview for Cream Athens “On dreamlike and shiny scenes: An interview with Margaux Corda” - https://www.creamathens.com/margaux-corda
- Queer Festival 2020, Breaking Gender Stereotypes - Digital Photo Exhibition, Heidelberg, May 2020. - https://queer-festival.de/margaux-corda-blade-for-babes/
- Artscape Comtemporary Art Luxembourg, « The Female Gaze » , collective exhibition, Luxembourg, 17 October 2019 to May 2020. - https://www.artscape.lu/margaux-corda-works
2019
- LoosenArt, « Mannequin and Puppets », collective exhibition, Millepiani, Roma, 25 November to 5 December .
- Luxembourg Art Week 2019, with Artscape Comtemporary Art Luxembourg gallery, 7-10 November. - https://cutt.ly/AvaMBef
- Cherrydeck blog, Article about «Fantasma Inheritance», October 2019. - https://cutt.ly/dekqiF1
- Horizont Magazine, Issue 4, Serie portrait/fashion, September.
- Lozart collective exhibition, Eveil Numérique, Quartier des Grottes, Geneva, Switzerland.
- Der Greif, online exhibition curated by John Fleetwood, June. - https://dergreif-online.de/guest-room/john-fleetwood/
- Foto Festival Lenzburg, Searching Beauty, from 17 May to 17 June, Lenzburg, Switzerland.
- Perception, collective exhibition for the month of photography Roma, March, Italy, Millepiani gallery. Online Magazine of the exhibition - https://cutt.ly/Dva1y8h / Avalaible on Loosenart Online Gallery - https://cutt.ly/5vaM96G
2018
- Lozart collective exhibition, “Le respect, c'est la base!”, Espace Démart, Lausanne.
- Encontros Da Imagem, Portfolio review emmerging talent, Braga, Portugal.
- Helsinki Photo Festival 2018, “From Helsinki with Love» , exhibited in Galleria Futura and in Kellohalli, Helsinki. - http://helsinkiphotofestival.com/margaux-corda/
- Les Rencontres d'Arles Voies OFF, The Family Of No Man, Cosmos Book.
2017
- Novembre x ecal, the Paris Photo off program - Espace Canal Saint Martin, Paris, France. - exibition & publication
- Half-Time exhibition, ECAL, Renens, Switzerland.
2016
- Half-Time exhibition, ECAL, Renens, Switzerland.
- Festival Images Vevey, Switzerland - A collective projet "PhotoJukeBox" producted by Festival Images Vevey and ECAL.
commissions
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